First, there was his ambition of building a museum to show his ballooning collection.
And thanks to ballooning real estate values, average household net worth has increased even faster.
The issue has been highlighted by the collapse of the firm Go Ballooning this month.
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As their economic positions improve, they buy motorbikes and cars, ballooning their gasoline demand.
But ballooning trials do seem to add to the cost of developing a new medicine.
With the economy contracting and public debts ballooning, policymakers need to find savings wherever they can.
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But whether in private or government systems, the cost of health care in Asia is ballooning.
However, he says, Paulson has not done enough to curb the ballooning U.S. current account deficit.
Meanwhile, the National Ballooning Championships, due to take place in Ludlow, have been cancelled.
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Voters are still worried about the economy, with job-creation slow and the budget deficit ballooning.
Shepherd says they quickly had to hire a staffer just to handle ballooning customer support.
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But it will horrify ministers, who are already keenly aware of the railways' ballooning costs.
But late last year the IMF suspended its programme because of ballooning public spending.
Ballooning level 3 assets "are on the list of things to worry about, " Petrou says.
Governments have no choice but to cut public-sector debt, which is ballooning across the rich world.
Regular jiggering of organic functions is needed to keep the ratio from ballooning to something deadly.
While both Americans and Australians have ballooning bellies, Australia's life expectancy has continued to move up nicely.
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It argued that with ballooning health costs, national health insurance was an issue whose time had come.
Indeed, now the debt is ballooning again, not just to make acquisitions but because of costly upgrades.
One of the key concerns among many analysts has been India's ballooning fiscal and current account deficits.
If nothing else, the ballooning federal deficit is a signal that taxes are going to go up.
It's only the latest effort by Microsoft to improve its hold on the ballooning Internet telephony market.
Employers have responded to falling stockmarkets and ballooning pension liabilities by closing these schemes to new members.
In a way those transfers can be seen as the corollary, in part, of the UK's ballooning deficit.
How to stay creative while your firm is ballooning through consolidation is a pressing issue for pharmaceutical executives.
But to stop the scheme's deficit ballooning any further, membership is going to cost rather a lot more.
Meanwhile, two-way trade between India and Sri Lanka, which signed a bilateral free-trade agreement in 1999, is ballooning.
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Nineteen people were killed Tuesday in what appeared to be the deadliest hot air ballooning accident on record.
The company also is scouting opportunities to roll out midprice hotels aimed at attracting China's ballooning middle class.
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Interest on the ballooning national debt also contributes to it, as well as rising health costs and ageing.
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